Central Park South

Central Park South is the ONLY perfume I have that got me a compliment on the 10th hour of the dry down. I work for FedEx Express and I was delivering a package to the receptionist at her desk. She gasped when I told her I sprayed CPS on my skin 10 hours ago. This is a true longevity and projection beast that just keeps on giving. This just speaks volumes in the quality that they put in their perfumes. Reading the notes before actually buying it I feared the worst. CPS might just end up smelling like every designer perfume out there that has grapefruit and blackcurrant notes. But upon first spray....CPS hits you with one of the loudest and most colorful grapefruit top notes ive ever smelled. It QUICKLY separates itself from any other perfume with similiar notes. The jasmine mingling with the obvious grapefruit and blackcurrant notes just makes CPS dance on my skin. This is truly a refreshing high class spring scent. CPS dries down into a very masculine musky and woody base in its final glorious hours....in which I still managed to get noticed and get complimented on. This is another colorful and vibrant winner from the house of Bond. A MUST for spring!!!!

11/25/19 - There are so many reviewers who can dissect certain notes. The best I can do is share what I’m experiencing as a whole. This scent is beautiful! It’s so feminine. The bottle is such a good visualization to what I’m thinking of and feeling wearing this. It’s for women who love pinks and light purples, bows and frills, dresses and heels. I used “women” because I personally think it’s got a note that brings it up a notch from being a safe girl’s perfume. Maybe it’s the base woody notes? IMHO it’s just a tad too mature for, say, a girl’s first perfume. This isn’t a beachy, ocean-breeze type of a perfume. This would definitely be perfect for a wedding frag - it’s sophisticated and “upper-crust”, for lack of a better description. I’m being brought back to a Ralph Lauren perfume - maybe Safari? Or Lauren... but not exactly - just a fleeting wisp of a connection to them. I love this. How perfect it would be to find a body lotion and shower gel to layer it all 💕 Top notes: grapefruit blossom, black currant buds Mid: blooming jasmine and lily of the valley base: woody notes

No fruit in this for me just straight up thick white floral, the jasmine smells more like tuberose to me, it’s almost as though the top notes are missing completely and it goes straight onto the middle notes, I’m not sensing much wood on the dry down either, the best I can say about this one is the bottles nice. Sadly it’s a no from me. EDIT.. just tried this again 3 days later and wow it’s like a different perfume, I’m getting the lovely sweet notes and a sparkling jasmine, this has gone to a straight up love 💓 someone once told me that when you buy a perfume online and it’s gone through the delivery process always give it time to settle before using, well I’m beginning to think there just might be something in that. The grapefruit blossom and the blackberry really lifts this perfume into something bright and sparking.

This perfume is a joy, freshness and spring in a bottle! Really love it. I first fell in love with it from a sample and then had to buy a full bottle. It's not a ground breaking scent in the meaning of some new notes. But it's pretty addictive especially for the warm spring days when people start sweating and need this extra elegant freshness in the air that compliments the blooming nature. A pretty prominent note to my nose here is a delicate tuber rose which I guess is actually the jasmine and the Lilly of the valley combination. There is a beautiful green sweet opening coming from the black currant blossom which also brings a very fresh out of the shower character working together with the grapefruit blossom. The woodsy notes are very quiet undetectable to my nose.

Woah! I wasnt expecting a banana skin smell on the opening. It's that curious woody smell. Unmistakable. I would never have guessed blackcurrant and grapefruit blossom were present. I would have guessed ylang was present but it isn't! It also makes me think of the tropical shrub Michelia. I've smelt in bloom in one of the greenhouses in Saville Gardens UK. I can detect a bit of jasmine. I totally get why some smell tuberose but it's also very bananary (have I created a new word?!) It's definitely a scent of the hot and steamy tropics. It takes me back to hacking through jungle in Malaya. A night wear number only as pretty potent. It hangs around for hours even in these warm temps. Reasonable sillage as well.

A wonderful, long-lasting, fresh white floral! This is probably my favorite Bond~ (and I have sniffed them all!) To my nose this is a slightly spicy tuberose-like floral that dries down to a soft, lingering floral musk. It is difficult to find a fresh floral that actually lasts. (Yes, Fracas is a lasting tuberose but it does not have the "fresh" quality of C. Park South.) This is pretty and it does not scream "PERFUME". I have gotten comments like "You smell delicious!" and "Mmm!" while wearing this.... ~Oh, and the flowers on the bottle are pictures of "fuschia flowers" not roses, per the Bond No. 9 website.

I've tried it just once and it's in my wishlist ever since.it's a fresh,clean and lovely white floral scent with fruity undertone which makes it a delicious floral scent Before checking it's notes I didn't think of jasmine and lily of the valley.tuberose,gardenia,orange flower and even neroli were in my mind.it also reminded me my beloved central park west but it's less heavy and more fresh.I guess I can actually pick up something like grapefruit but not in a sharp,sour way,also a hint of musk All in all it's gorgeous,sensual,clean and creamy and delicate but with great duration and projection

I love this! It smells like you’ve gotten out of the shower, clean, but not soapy. It’s a beautiful, modern dewy white floral bouquet with a fruity background. Doesn’t smell outdated or mature as in the old screechy white florals from decades ago. I can see this being worn as a signature scent because it’s not loud, overbearing or offensive, a pretty safe crowd pleaser that can be worn year round, any occasion. It smells pretty identical to Michael Kors Very Hollywood more than the original Michael Kors signature which is my top 5 fav. Also very similar to Paris Hilton Tease. Trust me.

I have a love/ hate relationship with this perfume. I think it's because it stays linear on me and lasts forever..by the end of the day it's still going just as strong as when I first sprayed it in the morning, and by then I'm over it. It's kind of ridiculous to dislike a perfume for having awesome sillage and longevity, but here I am. It is a very pretty white floral though.

I have a tester and is wearing half a spray. Wow this is strong. I'm enveloped in a cloud of white flowers. I get mostly tuberose - must be the jasmine that feels like tuberose on my skin. It's very feminine - bright and loud but feels rounded, not screechy. I can't wait to wear it on a bright, crisp spring day. It will be perfect.

This smells magnolia to me! Nothing else. Idk why. It was the only one from the line that I liked. I only spray it on my hair after a shower and it lasts for days on end, however its very strong hence why I only spray it on my hair. Fresh, summery for night and day. A little goes a long way when sprayed on the skin

Like many good things in life, this perfume seems to require patience. When I first applied I thought it was fine, maybe even a little "meh". Fast forward a couple of hours and it has became delicately sweet & airy, with gentle floral notes. Happy, yet calm. I love it.

I just love this scent!! It smells delicious and tantalizing!! I spayed it a lot on me when I was sampling it in Bloomingdales and I can't wait to spray it on me in the summer and spring!! This is many of the scents I will pay to get over and over

I adored this scent first, however, I found this too "bitter" for me. The bitterness is like, something bitter in grapefruits and petit grain. If you do not like sweet white floral but like white floral scent, I can recommend this.

Perfect clean jasmine. If ever there were a desire for a clean, sparkling white floral, this is it. I'm almost tempted to describe it as tuberose, but it's clean, dreamy, fruity jasmine. An utter delight.

Clean floral sweet scent and warm, Very elegant. I always get complimented for smelling so good . Doesnt sting no weird after smell when dried down.

divine! lasts a looooong time! gorgeous floral scent!

I've been looking at this fragrance for a number of years and read many reviews here and on other sites that compare this to Bond Central Park West. A lot of reviews claim they smell very similar, but after picking up a travel sprayer, and doing a side by side, I have to disagree. To my nose the only thing they have in common is that they are both big, extravagant florals. While both are white flower bonanzas, Central Park West is heavier, louder, richer, more sensuous, and much more extroverted and over the top. It's a great perfume for a night on the town. Whereas this is springtime in a bottle and despite also being a big floral too, the fresh, clean profile makes it more wearable for day, if used judiciously. So, right off the bat, besides having a different feel about it, it is more versatile than West as it can easily go from day to night. Also, West is more cold weather wear while this is more geared to warm weather. I couldn't imagine wearing West in the summer as it is so heavy and dense, I think it would choke me out and everyone else within the vicinity. As to this fragrance, it is white florals at their peak of bloom. Some people think it has a cleanliness to it, as if you just got out of the shower, and I can see that too though it is not shampooey in the least. There's just the tinniest hint of fruitiness that adds freshness, but this is not a fruity floral either. At least not in the way most fruity florals are done today where the fruity notes are much more pronounced and a feature of the scent. If I were to make a comparison to any Bond fragrance, it would be Earth Day, in that it has that same clean, shower fresh aspect. If you are looking for a big fresh white floral, you should give this a shot as it is not only very pretty but performs wonderfully too. I will use up this travel sprayer next spring and summer, which I think will be perfect that time of year for this scent, and most likely will replace with a bottle when it is done.

Central Park South doesn't remind me of CPW. CPW is very white and green, pungent and very top heavy. This is much longer lasting and has warmth and brightness. Still, it can be a bit of a scrubber if you use too much. It has fewer ingredients than CPW, but maybe that is its strength. It has berries and grapefruit to cut the sweetness and pungency, she only used jasmine this time (thank you!) with Lily of the Valley which is very different, and wood in the base. So you get depth, but it's still fairly simple. Again, as with any "combo" white flower fragrance, use it sparingly, on the wrists only (for most of us).

Smells a lot like gardenia for me. It's nice but I prefer more of a citrus/gourmand touch. it also smells liek Central Park West which smells like KKW Body 2 for those that missed out on that (KKW 2 smells a little more musky).